Meet Lauren!
“From day 1 of applying, Family Source has been exceptional!“
Lauren is an amazing surrogate that delivered an adorable baby boy in December 2025.
Q: What led you to become a Surrogate?
I became a surrogate because although I had decided I was done adding to my own family, I had enjoyed being pregnant. Since I enjoyed and missed being pregnant, I felt like it was my calling to then help someone else have a baby that wasn’t able to do so on their own, and I am so blessed to have be able to do that!
Q. Who was the most significant support person throughout your journey?
(Besides my case coordinator of course), my husband and intended mom were the most significant support people I could have had throughout my journey! Through the ups and downs that we had from the beginning, they were all there to support and work through the good, bad and the ugly that arose during our journey.
Q. What made you decide to choose your Intended Parents?
After looking at several profiles, something that really stuck out about our parents was their infertility story, and their personalities. My intended parents story really pulled at my heart strings, and their profile just really showed their personalities. I felt that their personalities really resembled my husbands and I’s, and felt like we would be a great fit to work together bringing a baby into this world for them.
Q. What are some of the highlights of your journey?
Although our first embryo didn’t take, through the delay before transfer number 2, my intended mother and I continued communication, and was really able to build a relationship early. The parents flew to California to join me for transfer number 2, which was amazing. I had also gone to an ultrasound studio in my local town, got their baby’s heartbeat recorded and put into a teddy bear for them, which I feel helped them start to really feel the realness that they had a baby coming! over the course of the pregnancy, we continued to build a great relationship, with them flying in for several ultrasound appointments, and even taking some time out of their to come to our house, and meet our kids and spend some time with them. They were amazing and stayed with me all night when I was admitted for induction since my husband was unable to stay with me due to having to take care of our kiddos at home.
Q. Do you have advice for women who are interested in becoming a gestational surrogate?
Take your journey day to day. We had several things that held us up at different points during our journey, but continued to stay positive through it all. During transfer time, I always say “We’re going to manifest this baby into existence” and I feel like if you don’t think about what could go wrong, things are more likely to just go right!
Q. How do you feel about your experience working with Family Source Consultants?
From day 1 of applying, Family Source has been exceptional! Everyone I have encountered has been so pleasant and helpful, and enthusiastic about their jobs and this journey! Although, I started with one case coordinator, when I was assigned Tiffany as my new case coordinator, we instantly clicked, and I can’t be more thankful for the relationship her and I built, and how helpful, and supporting she has been!
Q. What would you like other people to know about surrogacy?
Surrogacy is such a blessing for everyone involved. A blessing to the intended parents, because they’re getting a baby out of the journey; a child to love, and raise – something that they have been looking forward to for some time, even after all the things that have gone wrong. A blessing for the surrogate, because although our bodies are the ones changing through this process, the feeling you get when your intended parents meet their baby for the very first time is just unimaginable and unexplainable. A blessing for my family because the compensation we received allowed us to take a big family trip to Disney World and has helped us start saving for a down payment for our forever home.
Q. What was the funniest/strangest/most common question you were asked and how did you answer?
he most common question I was asked was “are you afraid you’re going to get attached to the baby?” My answer was always the same: I knew I was done growing my own family, so I went into this journey knowing that this baby was not mine, because there was a wonderful couple who had been hoping and praying for a baby for so long, that I couldn’t wait to have this baby and see the looks on their faces.
Q. How has becoming a surrogate impacted your life?
Becoming a surrogate has made such a huge impact on my life because it has made me grow into such a bigger person, become more selfless. It has allowed me to gain so many new friends and support people in my corner!
Q. How did you prepare yourself for separating from the baby after birth?
I had told my self going into this journey, that I was done growing my own family, but wanted to help others. I knew from the start that the end goal was to give birth to healthy baby for our intended parents, so for me, knowing the end goal, and bigger picture, it was easily for me to disassociate for the intended parents sake.
Q. What would you like someone who is considering working with a surrogate to know?
I feel like the match meeting means everything on both parties. We were lucky enough to know at the beginning of the match meeting that we were working with the best parents for us. Our intended parents also felt the same way. So, my advice would be to take the match meeting the most serious, if something feels off in the meeting, use that instinct, because as intended parents, you are trying to find a woman to grow your child. That woman will be the closest person to your baby for 9 months.. that baby will naturally pick up some instincts and things from your surrogate. So if its not a perfect match, I would say to wait until you find one. I don’t feel like a surrogate is something/someone you should just “settle” on.
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Staci Swiderski, CEO and owner of Family Source Consultants, has been a prominent leader in reproductive medicine for over two decades. Through her strategic vision and dedication, she has developed Family Source Consultants into a globally recognized agency specializing in comprehensive egg donation and gestational surrogacy services. Under Staci’s leadership, the agency has become a trusted partner for intended parents, surrogates, and egg donors worldwide, known for its rigorous standards, compassionate support, and commitment to excellence in third-party reproduction.
Her professional insight is uniquely informed by her own family-building experiences. As an intended parent, Staci welcomed her son via gestational surrogacy in 2005, and as a known egg donor, she assisted an infertile couple in expanding their family. These experiences lend a rare depth to her leadership and have fueled her ongoing dedication to ethical, empathetic, and professional support within the field of reproductive medicine.
